Department of Road Construction Machines and Hydraulic Systems
The 1960s are characterized by rapid growth of all branches of industry and construction. The giants of domestic chemical, mining, timber processing and energy industries are being constructed in the East Siberian region. To provide the mentioned volume of constructions with highly skilled personnel by the order of the Minister of higher and specialized secondary education of RSFSR in the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute there was organized a chair of automobile transport and road-building machines. The first intake of students was in 1961. The post of the head of the department was given to the candidate of technical sciences, associate professor Y.A.Soshnikov, who was elected to this post by the institute council on the 28th of June 1963.
The Department of Road Construction Machines and Hydraulic Systems has been training specialists since 1965. At the present time the department provides undergraduate and post graduate educational programs in Land and Industrial Vehicles
The mission of the department is to provide high-quality engineering education that meets the modern requirements of the real sector of the Russian economy, based on the integration of educational, scientific, industrial and innovative processes.
Key personnel
Dmitrii Kokourov
Head of the Department:
Department of Road Construction Machines and Hydraulic Systems
Phone
+7 395-240-5134
Mail
v03@ex.istu.edu
Teaching staff
Research projects
- Upgrading and reconstruction of Asphalt-and-Concrete Plant; Road Construction Department
- Positive-displacement hydraulic drive diagnostics
- Import-substitution of hydraulic drive elements and an engine
- Development and creation of exchangeable working equipment for single-bucket excavator for destruction of resistant materials with increased energy of single impact
- Design and creation of resonant vibrating equipment for compaction of concrete mixes